Instead, there may be something to be gained by leaning less on modern gurus who pontificate about such things as best in class and more toward Aristotle, who defined virtue not in terms of maximum excellence, but as a habit of choosing the mean lying between the extremes.

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Preparing to take maximum advantage of all of the new data and analytical capabilities rapidly arriving on the computing scene will mean that most businesses have to rethink how they assemble, distill, and use information.

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